Day D

Plans of the battle of day D

In the military vocabulary, Day D (of English D-Day) it is a used term frequent to denote the day where one has attacked or an operation of the combat must be initiated. More famous Day D of all was 6 of June of - the day where started - initiating the release of the European continent of the occupation Nazista during .

It consults the article for a description of the events of 6 of June of .


Landing in the beach Omaha

Day D, the invasion of Normandy, had been originally marked for 5 of June of 1944, but bad weather made with that the General Eisenhower it transferred the invasion to day 6 of June.

Had to this, the strategies of certain military operations tried to prevent to use the term. For example, invasion of Leyte for the Gen. MacArthur it started in the "A-day" (day), and invasion of Okinawa in the "L-Day" (day L). 1 of November, , the date proposal for invasion of Japan, it would have to be "X-Day" (day X). One second vacant of landings in would be "Y-Day" (day Y), 1 of March, .

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